Memorial Stone on Jewish Cemetery in Güssing

Until the end of the 18th century, the Jewish cemetery was located in Güssing within the city wall. In 1799, or 1811, the Batthyány Counts donated a new cemetery plot in the Mühlwinkel, on the outskirts of the city, to the Jewish community. After the National Socialists came to power, the cemetery was desecrated, the gravestones were removed and part of the cemetery area was sold or built over. After 1945, the IKG Graz, in cooperation with the Verein Shalom, erected 50 symbolic gravestones and a memorial. After some Güssing gravestones were found in Graz, these were returned to the Güssing Jewish cemetery in 2001.